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'Today we will be transforming pins into matches the best one will get a Canary Custard!' My students seemed so excited to get started. Many of them couldn't transform it into a dull match except for one brilliant Gryffindor much like my self.
'Professor Granger, Professor Granger! I got it! I got it,' said the anxious little girl.
'Very good. Now lets see if it can light on fire?!? If it lights 10 points for Gryffendor!' A chuckle came from a man leaning against the doorway. His hair fell in a very elegant way around his bright and confident face. His eyes sparkling like there were no tomorrow. 'Hello Professor Black! Nice for you to come and visit.'
'Yes. I see your students are transfiguring needles into very lethal weapons. They can poke people and at the same time light on fire!' I weakly giggled to his joke as some color arose in my cheeks.
A very annoying and blonde Slytherin who looked remarkably like Draco Malfoy, my old enemy, piped and said in a drawling voice, 'Look's like Granger, oh sorry, Professor Granger's in love!'
'Ten points from Slytherin for getting into your professor's relationships!' I barked almost Snape-like. Sirius walked towards me with such grace you would have thought he was just hovering.
'Next time please don't remind me of Snape, he, after all, intruded on our 'private' time!' Sirius mumbled in my ear. I felt my insides doing flips when he spoke. 'Oh and we have a staff meeting tonight. Sounds like a fun filled evening to me! We get to be cooped up with Malfoy, Snape, and Trewlany all night long. I would never want to do any thing else at all!' I try to suppress a giggle while took the little girl's match from my desk and lit it on fire for everyone to see.
'Children! Look, Mary has made a perfect match! I hope all of you can do this by tomorrow! For homework practice on transfiguring needles into matches! And I expect it to at least not be sharp!' The bell rang and all the kids eagerly rushed off to their other classes.
'Well, they seem like a happy little bunch of 1st years! I remember when I was a 1st year and I had to turn my needle into a match! Instead of turning it into a match, I turned it into a sword! Prongs and I started dueling until Minerva stopped us! Ah, those were the good ol' days!'
'Don't you have a class to teach or something?'
'You're right! Thanks! I almost forgot! Bye!' Sirius said hurriedly as he ran off to greet his next class. I sighed at his unreliability as my 7th year Gryffindors and Slytherins piled in, just waiting for my lecture on their N.E.W.T.s. They were probably so annoyed already because they already had almost all of their teachers bug them constantly. It felt like just yesterday that I whizzed through my Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests. I fretted so much over studying that I studied for the whole entire year! I woke up two hours early and rushed to the library to get in some studying before my first class. I got all of my N.E.W.T.s! It was exhausting, but worth it! That's how I got teaching here.
'Class, I will save you from your lecture until tomorrow. I did have to go through the lectures only last year, so I feel your pain!'
'Today we will be transforming pins into matches the best one will get a Canary Custard!' My students seemed so excited to get started. Many of them couldn't transform it into a dull match except for one brilliant Gryffindor much like my self.
'Professor Granger, Professor Granger! I got it! I got it,' said the anxious little girl.
'Very good. Now lets see if it can light on fire?!? If it lights 10 points for Gryffendor!' A chuckle came from a man leaning against the doorway. His hair fell in a very elegant way around his bright and confident face. His eyes sparkling like there were no tomorrow. 'Hello Professor Black! Nice for you to come and visit.'
'Yes. I see your students are transfiguring needles into very lethal weapons. They can poke people and at the same time light on fire!' I weakly giggled to his joke as some color arose in my cheeks.
A very annoying and blonde Slytherin who looked remarkably like Draco Malfoy, my old enemy, piped and said in a drawling voice, 'Look's like Granger, oh sorry, Professor Granger's in love!'
'Ten points from Slytherin for getting into your professor's relationships!' I barked almost Snape-like. Sirius walked towards me with such grace you would have thought he was just hovering.
'Next time please don't remind me of Snape, he, after all, intruded on our 'private' time!' Sirius mumbled in my ear. I felt my insides doing flips when he spoke. 'Oh and we have a staff meeting tonight. Sounds like a fun filled evening to me! We get to be cooped up with Malfoy, Snape, and Trewlany all night long. I would never want to do any thing else at all!' I try to suppress a giggle while took the little girl's match from my desk and lit it on fire for everyone to see.
'Children! Look, Mary has made a perfect match! I hope all of you can do this by tomorrow! For homework practice on transfiguring needles into matches! And I expect it to at least not be sharp!' The bell rang and all the kids eagerly rushed off to their other classes.
'Well, they seem like a happy little bunch of 1st years! I remember when I was a 1st year and I had to turn my needle into a match! Instead of turning it into a match, I turned it into a sword! Prongs and I started dueling until Minerva stopped us! Ah, those were the good ol' days!'
'Don't you have a class to teach or something?'
'You're right! Thanks! I almost forgot! Bye!' Sirius said hurriedly as he ran off to greet his next class. I sighed at his unreliability as my 7th year Gryffindors and Slytherins piled in, just waiting for my lecture on their N.E.W.T.s. They were probably so annoyed already because they already had almost all of their teachers bug them constantly. It felt like just yesterday that I whizzed through my Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests. I fretted so much over studying that I studied for the whole entire year! I woke up two hours early and rushed to the library to get in some studying before my first class. I got all of my N.E.W.T.s! It was exhausting, but worth it! That's how I got teaching here.
'Class, I will save you from your lecture until tomorrow. I did have to go through the lectures only last year, so I feel your pain!'